Phillip W. Norris,
Principal

Phil Norris is a senior healthcare finance consultant with over 30 years of financial and operational experience in the healthcare industry. He carries experience identifying problems, providing realistic solutions and building organizations capable of functioning in today’s challenging health care environments.

Norris has led hospitals from $40 million to $500 million in net revenues through tough financial times, including turnarounds and bankruptcy situations. He has a strong working knowledge of hospital operations, cost controls and productivity measurements, but improving the revenue cycle has always had special importance to him. Especially in turnaround situations, Norris has a keen eye to improving revenue cycle components to produce increased amounts of cash, decreasing contractual allowances and bad debts and improving bottom lines.

Additionally, Norris has founded and successfully operated three separate consulting companies focusing on financial operations improvement. Through these consulting companies, he has worked successfully with many of the major industry consulting companies such as The Hunter Group, Navigant Consulting, The Intensive Resource Group, Cambio, TRG and others. He has also worked for investor-owned hospital companies such as Tenet, HCA Management Company, Quorum Health Resources, and stand alone not-for-profit hospitals.

Norris is an advanced member of Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and was past president of the Gulf Coast Chapter. He has a bachelor of business administration in accounting from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.